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Leopold Bloom

Leopold Bloom is the fictional star of the James Joyce novel Ulysses, first published in 1922. The book follows a single day in the life of Bloom, an advertising salesman, as he travels about the…

Presidential Scandals

by Ann-Marie Imbornoni and Tasha Vincent Related Links U.S. Presidents Presidential Trivia Quiz: Campaign Slogans Oath of Office President's Day Features…

Odysseus

Latin name: Ulysses Odysseus is the great hero of The Odyssey, the classic tale by the ancient bard Homer. The Odyssey tells of Odysseus's 10-year struggle to return from the Trojan War to his home…

James Joyce

Name at birth: James Augustine Aloysius JoyceJoyce was to modern literature what Picasso was to modern art: he scrambled up the old formulas and set the table for the 20th century. Joyce's books…

Julia Grant

Julia Boggs Dent Grant was the wife of President Ulysses S. Grant of the United States of America. She was raised on a plantation outside of St. Louis and met Ulysses Grant in 1843. He had been a…

Brewer's: Ithacensian Suitors

(The). The suitors of Penelope (4 syl.), wife of Ulysses, King of Ithaca. While Ulysses was absent, many suitors presented themselves to Penelope, affirming that Ulysses was certainly dead…

Brewer's: Lestrigons

A race of giants who lived in Sicily. Ulysses sent two of his men to request that he and his crew might land, but the king of the place ate one for dinner and the other fled. The…